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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI105236

Load, Work, and Velocity of Muscle Shortening of the Left Ventricle in Normal and Abnormal Human Hearts

D. E. L. Wilcken

Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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Senior Research Fellow of the National Heart Foundation of Australia. Address requests for reprints to Dr. D. E. L. Wilcken, Dept. of Medicine, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, N. S. W. Australia.

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Submitted for publication November 23, 1964; accepted April 22, 1965.

This work was supported by grant no. G.168 from the National Heart Foundation of Australia. Some of these data were presented at the February 1965 meeting of the Australian Physiological Society and appeared in abstract form (1).

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Published August 1, 1965 - More info

Published in Volume 44, Issue 8 on August 1, 1965
J Clin Invest. 1965;44(8):1295–1310. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI105236.
© 1965 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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